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CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 11, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- A report on armed conflict in Africa has shown that the cost to the continent's development over a 15-year period was nearly $300bn (�146bn). The research was undertaken by a number of non-governmental organisations, including Oxfam. It says the c.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 3:23pm neoform

New York Times -- WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilians and have sought to cover up the incidents, sometimes with the help of the State Department, a report to a Congressional committee said today. The report.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

CNN -- Blackwater USA guards have used deadly force weekly in Iraq and have inflicted "significant casualties and property damage," according to a congressional staff report released Monday that cites internal company and State Department documents. Blackwat.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Leaked report General David Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador, are due in Washington to report to the US congress next week on progress in Iraq since the introduction of 30,000 more American troops, includin.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

Washington Post -- The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 30, 2007 @ 7:30am neoform

BBC News -- Nearly a third of the population of Iraq is in need of immediate emergency aid, according to a new report from Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi NGOs. The report said the government was failing to provide basics such as food and shelter for eight million.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:47am neoform

Washington Post -- Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over the past two years, putting the United States in a "heightened threat environment" despite expanded worldwide counterterrorism efforts, acc.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 9:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 3:45am neoform

Yahoo News -- Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and civilians, has edged higher despite the U.S.-led security push in Baghdad, the Pentagon told Congress on Wednesday. In its required quarterly report on security, political and economic devel.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:06am neoform

Washington Post -- Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are c.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:43pm neoform

USA Today -- A Danish cargo ship with five crewmembers was hijacked off Somalia's coast, the owner said Saturday, citing a report by the French navy. The Danica White was on its way to the Kenyan port of Mombasa from Dubai when it was seized by pirates Saturday or.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:38pm neoform

FOX News -- Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 21, 2007 @ 10:32pm neoform

ABC News -- The massacre at Haditha, Iraq, has been called the worst alleged atrocity by U.S. forces in the Iraq war. Three marines are charged with murder, but ABC News has confirmed that a still unreleased report casts blame far up the chain of command. The repo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:35am neoform

BBC News -- Human rights group Amnesty International has released a highly critical report on Egypt's record on torture and illegal detention. The issue was recently highlighted by the emergence of mobile phone film of policemen raping a man with a stick. The r.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 10:59am neoform

Washington Post -- Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Departme.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:09pm neoform

BBC News -- Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement, a report says. Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were "pushing people to.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Camps for those displaced by fighting in Sudan's Darfur region are almost full, the UN says. Several camps are having to turn away new groups of refugees, a report for UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says. More than 80.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 10:18am mrmdc

Independent -- The US must draw up plans to deal with an all-out Iraqi civil war that would kill hundreds of thousands, create millions of refugees, and could spill over into a regional catastrophe, disrupting oil supplies and setting up a direct confrontation between W.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- A loyalist paramilitary gang was involved in up to 15 murders in the 1990s while being protected by Special Branch handlers, a damning report said today... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 1, 2007 @ 11:46pm neoform

BBC News -- An official Israeli report has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli security service tortured detainees during the Palestinian uprising, the Intifada, between 1988 and 1992... Read More